- Ovie Irikefe: Some stories are too forbidden, too sad and too dark, it should be cast into the deepest part of the River nun. Some stories should never be told. For it will only bring sadness to the ones who hear it.
- Ovie Irikefe: The failure began when the joy of a fisherman's son at the sight of a canned sardine outweighed that of his throw net tilapia...
- Ovie Irikefe: How many stories would you tell before you tell the story of your people?
- Kokenam: That place became history when the black monster found its way to Adu-Ema. I was born after the rape of paradise... Into this new world, a world of hopelessness, stricken by the frey from madness.
- Kokenam: My father, before he died told me how the mangroves blossomed in their greenery and the skies were just as enchanting as the moon. Adu-ema... The green world, our own Shangri-la.